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The Live Enterprise Model

Eric Jacobson

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. They explain that the very nature of organizations has come under pressure. And even change management is changing as well. Value chains have changed.

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

So I reached out to a number of experts with these 3 questions: What is the number #1 leadership competency a person must possess or learn to succeed? What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? Any other leadership advice you recommend for leading well?

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business Review

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. Their people are no longer part of the organization they joined.

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The Winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge: How They Are Reinventing Management

Harvard Business Review

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. That may seem obvious in the age of the crowd, but it's far from operational. But don't take it from me. Meet the winners and dive into their entries: The Deliberative Corporation.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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Design How Your Team Thinks

Harvard Business Review

To design our thinking, we have to become adept at working with mental models and managing thinking styles. This requires both learning and unlearning. It’s a brain when we talk about a learning organization. When hiring, also consider more than what they know and how fast they learn.

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Use Doctrine to Pierce the Fog of Business

Harvard Business Review

The traditional tools of management — strategy and planning — are no longer sufficient. Doctrine is the military's mechanism for managing the fog of war, pushing decision-making closer to the ground while providing the lines to guide decision-making and action. So Special Operations went with a third option.